Collapsible toy building



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UNITED STATES EMIL S. KLINER, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA.

COLLAPSIBLE TOY BUILDING.

Application filed January To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL S. KLINER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible ToyBuildings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to collapsible toy buildings. An object is toprovide a sheet metal construction such that the parts of buildings maybe packed in compact form in a base member when not in use and may bereadily assembled whenever desired in such manner that the various partswill be locked together when the building is assembled. Another objectis to provide a convenient form of window frame construction. Anotherobject is to provide a toy building which will afford amusement forchildren and at the same time will be instructive.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear inconnection with the detailed description thereof and the novel featuresembodied in my inventive idea will be particularly pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate an embodiment of myinvention, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a toy building.Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the base in the reverse positionin which it is placed for packing purposes. Fig. 3 is a perspective Viewof the building in assembled condition. Fig. 4 is a plan view of theinside window frame before folding the outer margin. 5 is a plan view ofthe inside window frame after folding the outer margin. Fig. 6 is a planview of the outside window frame before folding the inner margin. Fig. 7is a plan view of the outside window frame after folding the innermargin. Fig. 8 is a sectional view showing the two window framesattached together and holding a piece of glass or other transparentmaterial in place. Fig. 9 is a fragmentary view in horizontal sectionshowing the corner construction of the building. Fig. 10 is afragmentary view in horizontal section showing the manner of holdingpartitions. Fig. 11 is a fragmentary View in vertical section showingthe manner of supporting the outside walls. Fig. 12 is a fragmentaryView in vertical section showing the manner of lapping two roof sectionstogether.

Referring to the construction shown in 31, 1925. Serial No. 5,967.

the drawings, thenumeral l4 designates a hollow sheet metal base memberhaving a closed top 16 and an open bottom, three sides of the latterbeing surrounded by horizontal flanges 18 formed by turning inwardly thematerial of the sides. Adapted for co-operation with the flanges 18 is aslide cover 20 having compound marginal flanges 22 which slidably engagethe flanges 18 of the base so that the latter may be used as a box inwhich to store the various parts of the building. The top member 16 isprovided with a groove 24 extending all the way around somewhat insideof the margin. This groove serves to receive the lower ends of the outside walls 26 of the building as best shown in Fig. 11. The manner ofsecuring together the corners of the outside walls is best shown in Fig.9 in which it will be seen that the vertical edges of the. walls 26 areprovided with outwardly and backwardly bent flanges 28. A11 outsidecorner locking strio 30 is provided which is bent at right angles andits edges are provided with backwardly turned flanges 32. An insidecorner looking strip 34 is provided whose side portions are bent so asto form -degree angles with the body portion and are then bentbackwardly to provide flanges 36. The flanges 28, 32 and 36 aretelescoped together so that the outside Walls will be firmly heldtogether. Partition members 38 are provided whose vertical edges arebent at right angles to form flanges 40. As best shown in Fig. 10,vertical strips 42 are secured as by riveting to the outside walls or topartition walls and these strips have flanges 44 and 46 formed bybending backwardly the margins thereof so that the adjacent ends of theflanges are spaced apart sufficiently to form a gap for receiving thepartitions 38. The flange 40 of the partition telescopes with one of theflanges such as 44 and the other flange 46 prevents the partition fromworking out. In order to provide windows, an inside window frame 48 isprovided the corners of which are mitered and the outer margins 49 arebent backwardly on lines 50 to produce inturned flanges 52. An outsidewindow frame 54 is provided, the inner margins 55 of which are providedwith miter cuts and bent backwardly on lines 56 to produce outwardlydirected flan es 58. It will now be apparent that suitable openingsformed in the walls may be readily furnished with windows by placing theinside frames 48 and the outside frames 54 upon the margins of saidopenings, bending the flanges 58 through the openings over the frames48, placing a p ece of glass or other transparent material 60 upon theframes 48 and bending back the flanges 52 over the margins of the glass.The building may be constructed in any suitable shape and may beprovided with any desired number and arrangement of partitions so thatany desired type of building may be represented. A suitable roof may beprovided from two pieces of sheet metal 62 and 64, whose adjacent edgesare overlapped and secured together to form the ridge 66 to which achimney 68 may be attached.

I claim 1. A collapsible toy building comprising a hollow base of sheetmaterial having a marginal groove extending around one surface thereof,wall members whose lower ends are adapted to be received in said grooveand a sliding cover for the side of said base opposite said groovedsurface whereby a receptacle is provided for receiving the wallmeml'iers of the building.

2. A collapsible toy building comprising a hollow base of sheet materialhaving a marginal groove extending around one surface thereof, wallmembers whose lower ends are adapted to be received in said groove, thevertical edges of said wall members being bent backwardly to formflanges, inner locking strips whose vertical edges are bent baekwardlyto form flanges, and outer looking strips whose vertical edges are bentbackwardly to form flanges, all of said flanges being adapted to fittogether telescopically for locking the corners of said wall memberstogether.

3. A toy building comprising wall members having window openingstherein, inner frame members, outer frame members, flanges on both ofsaid frame members, and a sheet of transparent material for said framemembers, said flanges interfitting to hold said transparent sheetbetween said frame members and to hold said frame members in place insaid window openings.

4:. A toy building comprising wall members having window openingstherein, inner frame members having their outer margins bent inwardly toform flanges, outer frame members having their inner margins bentoutwardly to form flanges, said last mentioned flanges holding saidouter frame members in said window openings and holding said inner framemembers in place, and a sheet of transparent material placed upon saidlast-mentioned flanges, said first mentioned flanges holding saidtransparent sheet in place.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

EMIL S. 'KLINER.

